Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi

This grainy, obscure pink film opens to a nightmarish sequence of a violent sexual encounter on a subway car. The scene goes on for just long enough to trick the viewer into expecting a sex flick with no story or point. The film shifts gears though, and focuses on the teenage boy who spends his days filming these bizarre subway sex happenings. He soon meets a girl his age, who is thrilled by the attention of the boy and his camera. We get to know this couple as two people who have been abandoned by their families, and because of this, they cling to each other and their intense, sometimes sad relationship is the focus of remainder of this short movie, which possesses a cold, industrial look very similar in style and tone as "Visitor Q," only not quite as nasty as that film. Originally called "Birthday," referring to the young girl of the story, who carries around a package of dynamite strapped around her waist, intending to light the fuse on her 20th birthday, and blow up herself, and her new boyfriend, in a suicide pact. Very intense and dreamlike movie, who's grainy look and oblique atmosphere work in it's favor. It's a true gem among the pinku eiga genre and is worth tracking down.